Avatar: The Way of Water

After a robust turnout on Christmas, "Avatar: The Way of Water" has crossed a major box office milestone.

“In just over a week of release, ‘Avatar: The Way of Water’ has sailed to more than $100 million in Imax box office with no signs of slowing down.” Like the original, “The Way of Water” is especially popular in Imax. It’s currently tied with “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” ($955.7 million globally) as the third-highest grossing movie of the year. Even though “Avatar: The Way of Water” is proving to be another powerful big-screen draw, the follow-up film will struggle to reach the towering heights of its predecessor, which is the highest-grossing release in history with $2.97 billion worldwide. It’s a threshold that only two other movies, “Top Gun: Maverick” ($1.48 billion) and “Jurassic World Dominion” ($1.001 billion), have managed to hit in 2022. “Avatar 2” needs to keep beating expectations with outsized ticket sales to justify its massive price tag.

This is the latest benchmark for the long-in-the-works sequel and comes just 13 days after its global rollout began. With $955.1M through Monday, The Way of ...

[20th Century Studios](https://deadline.com/tag/20th-century-studios/)/ [Disney](https://deadline.com/tag/disney/) sci-fi epic rose to a running cume of $108.7M in China per local estimates. In Korea, local estimates bring the cume through Tuesday to $58.2M. France and Italy, for example, saw their best days of play on this week’s Monday since the film opened. Internationally, Way of Water now stands as the No. What’s more, it is expected to hit the $1B worldwide milestone with today’s turnout. This is the latest benchmark for the long-in-the-works sequel and comes just 13 days after its global rollout began.

Internationally the Disney/Lightstorm release ranks as the second highest of 2022 and the third highest Hollywood release of the pandemic era. In North America ...

China tops the leaderboard on $104.5m, lower than expected due to Covid surges that have shut down cinemas in parts of the country. It will become the second highest release of the year when it overtakes Doctor Strange today. This has been the widest Imax global release on 1,543 screens at its peak. In North America extreme winter storms across large parts of the United States and Canada disrupted cinema-going however Disney sources noted that the four-day $95.5m haul was still on par with Rogue One’s corresponding $96m second weekend in December 2016. Internationally the Disney/Lightstorm release ranks as the second highest of 2022 and the third highest Hollywood release of the pandemic era. The tentpole now ranks as the third highest release of 2022 behind Top Gun: Maverick ($1.488bn) and Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness ($955.8m) and is the fourth highest release of the pandemic era.

James Cameron's long-awaited sequel continues to soar. Sam worthington as jake and zoe saldana as neytiri in avatar the way of water imax.

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever continued to hold strong in its seventh week at the Domestic Box Office, bringing in $5.5 million in the 4-day weekend to raise its domestic total to $482.2 million. [Puss in Boots: The Last Wish](https://collider.com/tag/puss-in-boots/), which premiered last week on December 21 and saw its 4-day weekend bring in $19.2 million, bringing its total at the Domestic Box Office to $26.1 million in its first week. Avatar surpassed the $400 million mark in only 23 days, so it will be up to the New Year's weekend to see [if its sequel can catch up](https://collider.com/avatar-2-the-way-of-water-box-office/) to the film that went on to be the highest-grossing film of all time. The $95.5 million made from the 4-day weekend brings the film's domestic total across its two weekends to $293.2 million as [the film closes in on $1 billion](https://collider.com/avatar-2-way-of-water-global-box-office-955-million/) at the Global Box Office, which has now passed $950 million worldwide.The last film that had its second weekend in theaters when Christmas fell on a Sunday was also a massive Disney franchise with Rogue One: A Star Wars Story back in 2016, which saw the prequel film earn $96.1 million in its Weekend 2, slightly outpacing Avatar: The Way of Water. In the face of the winter cold, [James Cameron](https://collider.com/tag/james-cameron/)'s long-awaited sequel brought in an impressive haul in its second weekend, topping out the 4-day weekend at $95.5 million. [Avatar: The Way of Water](https://collider.com/tag/avatar-2/) retain its top spot at the domestic box office.

Avatar: The Way Of Water hits the $1BILLION mark! The sequel starring Zoe Saldana and Sam Worthington continues to ride its wave of success. By Dailymail.com ...

The sequel starring Zoe Saldana and Sam Worthington continues to ride its wave of success Big money: Avatar's sequel, The Way of Water, will cross the $1billion mark on Tuesday just 13 days after its global release Good news: And the film picked up even more steam on Monday, also known as Boxing Day, which several people had off from work as Christmas fell on a Sunday this year Some box office analysts predicted that Avatar: The Way of Water could be just the fourth December release to cross the $200 million opening weekend threshold. Avatar's sequel, The Way Of Water, will cross the $1billion mark on Tuesday night, which is just 13 days after its global release. [Deadline](https://deadline.com/2022/12/avatar-the-way-of-water-box-office-1-billlion-1235207219/) reported on Tuesday morning that the movie already made over $900million over [Christmas weekend](/tvshowbiz/article-11573599/Avatars-sequel-crosses-700M-mark-Christmas-weekend-despite-massive-winter-storm.html).

As Christmas 2022 box office numbers roll in, it's clear the holiday weekend was all about two things: canceled flights and Avatar: The Way Of Water.

Holdouts like Violent Night and the ever-popular Black Panther also managed to remain in the top 10 this week. That’s something only Top Gun: Maverick and Jurassic World: Dominion have achieved this year—even Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’s [worldwide gross](https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt9114286/?ref_=bo_se_r_1) still hovers around the $800 million mark. The film—which needed to bring home almost [monster winter storm](https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2022/12/26/winter-storm-bomb-cyclone-buffalo-statistics/) descended across the continental United States and confined many to their homes, it’s another weekend of victory for James Cameron’s latest. Avatar managed to bring in $64 million over Christmas weekend—a far cry from its nearest competition, Puss In Boots: The Last Wish, which only brought in $12.4 million. So far, Avatar has grossed $261.7 million total and shows no signs of stopping.

“I had a bit of a crisis of faith as we were cutting the movie together,” admitted James Cameron of his billion-dollar-grossing Avatar: The Way of Water.

“I look back on some films that I’ve made, and I don’t know if I would want to make that film now. “I had a bit of a crisis of faith as we were cutting the movie together,” admitted James Cameron of his billion-dollar-grossing Avatar: The Way of Water. This is the dilemma of every action filmmaker, and I’m known as an action filmmaker.”

James Cameron cut out 10 minutes of gun violence from "Avatar 2."

Given Cameron’s comments, it’s safe to assume that action scenes in “The Terminator” franchise will look a bit different should it ever return to the screen. Cameron said earlier in the interview, “I look back on some films that I’ve made, and I don’t know if I would want to make that film now. The filmmaker said he is no longer interested in fetishizing guns in his action scenes given the rampant gun violence in the U.S.

While guns are a big part of action movies, Cameron thinks it has become problematic to depict shooting scenes in the current political context. That's due to ...

[four Avatar sequels are part of one big story](https://collider.com/avatar-2-way-of-water-lord-of-the-rings-james-cameron-comments/) Cameron wants to tell, but since the fourth and fifth movies haven't gone into production yet, their fate depends on the success of Avatar: The Way of Water. Cameron wrote the script for Avatar: The Way of Water with Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver. This is the dilemma of every action filmmaker, and I’m known as an action filmmaker.” I don’t know if I would want to fetishize the gun, like I did on a couple of Terminator movies 30+ years ago, in our current world. As a result, it’s not so easy to make action movies that fetishize guns and get away with it. During an interview with [Esquire Middle East](https://www.esquireme.com/culture/interviews/james-cameron-i-wouldnt-make-terminator-today), the filmmaker discussed his previous action movies, underlining how he wouldn’t make The Terminator in the current world.

"Violence and action are the same thing, depending on how you look at it," Cameron says.

“I look back on some films that I’ve made, and I don’t know if I would want to make that film now,” Cameron says. “I don’t know if I would want to fetishize the gun, like I did on a couple of Terminator movies 30-plus years ago, in our current world. This is the dilemma of every action filmmaker, and I’m known as an action filmmaker.” “I actually cut about 10 minutes of the movie targeting gunplay action,” Cameron says. “I wanted to get rid of some of the ugliness, to find a balance between light and dark. In today’s tidbit, Cameron takes on gun violence in America.

Avatar: The Way of Water's worldwide box office total will hit the $1 billion milestone in just twelve days after its theatrical release.

After hitting the $1 billion mark in 12 days, Avatar: The Way of Water has a chance, albeit an improbable one, to surpass the first film's $2.97 billion total, which was achieved after multiple theatrical re-releases. [Avatar: The Way of Water](https://screenrant.com/tag/avatar-2/) will hit the $1 billion milestone in just 12 days after its release. Amazingly, Avatar: The Way of Water will achieve the major milestone in just 12 days after its theatrical release.

We get a taste of the action via an early gun battle set near the link shack where Jack, Neytiri, and Quaritch fought at the end of the original film. During ...

Each viewing reveals a new creature or incredibly rendered piece of scenery — I imagine one could see The Way of Water dozens of times and still find some hidden treasure lurking on the periphery. For all its violence and chaos, The Way of Water works best when our characters are lounging about in Pandora’s beautiful waters. At one point, she shoots one of her massive arrows through the corpse of a man, inducing oohs and aahs from the audience. The fierce battle sets up the conflict between the Sullys and Quaritch’s team, serves as the catalyst that moves our heroes away from the forest and to the water, and separates Spider from his friends so that he can bond with Quaritch. James Cameron’s Avatar: The Way of Water is clobbering the box office, and with good reason: it’s an absolute blast from start to finish, full of emotion, drama, and rip-roaring action. Avatar: The Way of Water delivers some truly breathtaking action sequences.

The first Avatar film earned almost $3 billion back in 2009, becoming the highest-grossing film of all time. Will Cameron hit that sweet $2 billy mark? If sales ...

Cameron’s getting closer to full accepting that the film is a hit, aka hitting his goal of [$2 billion in box office sales](https://www.vulture.com/2022/12/avatar-the-way-of-water-opening-weekend-global-box-office.html). As of Tuesday, December 27, [Variety](https://variety.com/2022/film/news/avatar-the-way-of-water-900-million-worldwide-1235472877/) reported that the sequel film had earned $955.1 million since its premiere last weekend. [James Cameron](https://www.vulture.com/2022/12/avatar-sequel-announcements-timeline-james-cameron.html).

Set more than a decade after the Na'vi repelled the human colonization of Pandora in the original Avatar, the sequel finds Jakes and Neytiri staving off another ...

By cutting about 10 minutes worth of action scenes that glorified gun violence, Cameron also inadvertently cut down on Avatar: The Way of Water's runtime. [The Avatar writer/director](https://screenrant.com/avatar-way-water-runtime-tension-james-cameron-explained/) says he cut about ten minutes worth of scenes from the movie that depicted gun violence, declaring that he no longer wants to fetishize guns due to the rampant gun violence in the United States. Though gun violence may have had more of a place in Cameron's R-rated action movies like Terminator and Aliens, the same can't be said for Avatar. In fact, the Avatar: The Way of Water teaser trailer that screened ahead of Lightyear in theaters was originally going to show Jake holding a rifle, though it was edited by Disney due to public sentiments about glorifying gun violence after the Robb Elementary School shooting. I wanted to get rid of some of the ugliness, to find a balance between light and dark. [Esquire Middle East](https://www.esquireme.com/culture/interviews/james-cameron-i-wouldnt-make-terminator-today), Cameron revealed a surprising reason why some action scenes didn't make the final cut for Avatar: The Way of Water, and it doesn't have to do with the sequel's hotly-debated three-hour runtime.